Keeping Track: The Interaction Of Effects, Programs, And Mixes; Picking An Effect Configuration - Alesis QS6.1 Reference Manual

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Effect Send levels and Configuration assignments are saved as either part of a
Program (when in Program Edit mode), or as part of each Channel in a Mix (when in
Mix Edit mode). Keep in mind that these are separate from any changes that you
might make to a given ConfigurationÕs parameter settings!
If you are in Mix Mode, for example, and make changes in both the Mix and the
underlying Effect, you will have to store not only the Program that is on the Effect
Channel (thus saving its Effects Patch), but also the current Mix. If you donÕt do both,
then this Mix wonÕt sound the way you expect it to the next time you call it up.
Another thing to be aware of is that a single Program might be part of more than one
Mix. So if you change the Effect in that Program, the change will ripple through and
be heard in every Mix which has its Effect Channel set to use that ProgramÕs Effect.
(The way around this is to save the altered Program as a new Program, and assign
this new version to the Mix in question in place of its previous version.)
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The starting point of every Effect is its Configuration, which controls all routing and
parameters. Each is a unique arrangement of multiple effect blocks, distributed
across anywhere from two to four of the effect sends. Configurations also determine
where each blockÕs input comes from, and where each blockÕs output goes Ñ to the
Reverb, to the next effect in line, or straight to the main outputs.
The Configuration diagrams that follow will help guide you through the many
choices that are possible in each different configuration. We recommend that you
refer to them often as you experiment with creating your own Effects or editing
existing ones.
Every time you select a new Configuration you run the risk of resetting many of the routings
and parameters in that Configuration to their default values. So always press [40] in Effects
Edit Mode to select a Configuration FIRST, before doing any other editing.
The five Effect Configurations are:
¥ 1 Reverb
¥ 2 Reverbs
¥ Lezlie+Reverb
¥ Reverb+EQ
¥ Overdrive+Lezlie
To pick a Configuration, enter Effects Edit Mode and then press [40], the button that
has CONFIGURATION printed above it. The display will change to look like this:
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of the five possible Configurations. As you scroll through the choices, each oneÕs
name will appear in the display.
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